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Kuyubí language

Kujubim (Kuyubí, Cojubím) is a nearly extinct Chapacuran language spoken around the city of Guajará-Mirim in Rondônia, Brazil. The endonym, Kaw To Yo (or Kaw Tayó, which means 'eaters of payara fish'), may be the source of the river and synonym for this language, Cautario. Sources which list one do not list the other, so these may be the same language.

In addition, there is a language called Cumana (Kumaná), a possibly extinct variety of Kuyubí. Various names ascribed to the language in Campbell (2012) are Torá, Toraz (distinguish Torá language), and Cautario, the last perhaps after the local river, and Abitana-Kumaná (distinguish Abitana dialect).

Phonology

Kuyubí has 34 phonemes, 29 consonants and 5 vowels.

Consonants

Vocabulary

Conjubim vocabulary from Sampaio & da Silva (2011):

A word list with 793 lexical items is also available from Rodrigues Duran (2000).

References

Bibliography

  • Duran, Iris Rodrigues. 2000. Descrição fonológica e lexical do dialeto Kaw Tayo (Kujubi) da língua Moré. MA thesis, Guajará-Mirim: Universidade Federal de Rondônia; 136pp.
  • Angenot, Geralda de Lima V. 1997. vDocumentação da língua Kuyubi: Arquivos acústicos. Guajará-Mirim: UNIR Working Papers in Amerindian Linguistics. Série 'Documentos de Trabalho'.
  • Angenot, Geralda de Lima V. and Angenot, Geralda de Lima V. 1997. Léxico Português-Kuyubi e Kuyubi-Português. Guajará-Mirim: UNIR Working Papers in Amerindian Linguistics.

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